Monday, October 25, 2010

Inchies

When I was in college I took an art class. It taught me very little other than I didn't have a vision as my professor thought I should. And formal training was not for me.

The one thing he did instill in me was to practice in small doses
I had to create and work out compositions in little 1-inch squares. A page full of squares, and each inch was a composition.

We had to fill at least a page a week, which was about 100 squares a week, we were monitored each week, then graded at the end of every 3 or 4weeks. It taught me to look around and force myself to look for compositions.

Quite a few people do the picture a day, or something similar...I am now trying to do that with my quilting...I want to create original pieces.

You will be surprised at how many fun designs you can create. ....remember in quilting a square could easily represent a single. Block It can be turned and assembled. Checkered in with setting blocks. Or even 1 big block. And it can all start with A few lines (cuts/seams) in a single inch. I say go for it!!!!